The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Gardes

ISBN-13: 9780367878818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Sam Cooper

Opis

This book visits the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, from the arrival of Surrealism to Britain, to countercultures of the 50s and 60s, to current directions in Situationist theory and practice. It visits materials including newspaper reports, underground pamphlets, Psychogeographical films, and experimental nove

Spis treści

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Surrealism in England, or English Surrealism

Chapter Two: Alexander Trocchi and the Dissolution of the Avant-Garde

Chapter Three: The English Section of the Situationist International

Chapter Four: Long Live King Mob

Chapter Five: British Situationism Today

Index

O autorze

Sam Cooper is a Teaching Fellow in 20^th Century English Literature in the School of English at the University of Sussex, UK.